I recently had the opportunity to play a game of New York Chase with members of LIBO, the Long Island Boardgaming Organization. The members in attendance were Andrew, John, and Jeremy.

Since Andrew was familiar with the game having played it before, he took on the slightly harder job of playing as Mister X (and got to wear a cool looking cap to hide his eyes from the other players!), while John and Jeremy played the detectives assigned to capture him.

The game began with Mr X in downtown Manhattan. After having to reveal himself, the detectives worked quickly to cordon off the area and close their loophole, putting up roadblocks and calling in far-away detectives using the helicopter. At one point, John’s has correctly guessed where Mr X was, and was sending his detectives along to intercept, not knowing that he was 100 percent correct in his assumptions, and he was literally chasing Mr X, never more than 1 space behind him, down the streets of lower Manhattan. One crucial mistake the detectives made, was to not keep a guard on 1 subway station at a crucial juncture in the game, opting instead to try to bring their men in closer to surround Mr X. In the end, that move cost them the game. Mr. X was able to use that subway as a jumping on point, and went from subway to subway quickly to move all the way uptown. By the time the detectives could rally and head after Mr X, the game ended with Mr X (Andrew) being the winner.